Archive for October, 2013

The Meaning of Life

It just can’t be about the loud, brash, mostly ridiculous onslaught of inanity we come face to face with at every turn and as much as I’d like to embrace the Buddhist philosophy of all life being equal and interchangeably reincarnate, I am too sensitive to the inequalities to rub…

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Kick the Can

Back in the 50’s, on Northlawn Ave., when Detroit was way more than just a cool place to call your hometown, we spent many a Spring, Summer and Fall afternoon and evening playing extended rounds of Kick the Can as well as its more exciting, and exponentially more dangerous hybrid,…

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Dumb & Dumberer

Let’s take specific issues out of the mix.  Let’s not even talk about the Republican/Democratic debate of the last forty or so years, with Republicans mostly, (I was tempted to say ‘only’), ranting about fiscal topics, budgets, taxes, military funding, etc., while Democrats have been talking about social issues and…

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Cruz Control

It has to be an unbelievable rush for anyone to command the attention and control that Tom…I mean Ted Cruz has stumbled into.  I can’t say that I, (and probably most people), if suddenly in a position to make big things happen, wouldn’t at least take that power for a…

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